Courtesy of Politico:
A Romney protester holds his "Dogs Against Romney'" sign outside the candidate's rally in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday.
For those have forgotten, the stuffed dog on top of the car is a plush representation of Seamus, the pet dog that Mittens strapped to the top of the family station wagon, which he then drove at speeds of up to 60 miles an hour as the poor animal evacuated its bowels all over the back window.
Some poor choices in life might be explained away, but somehow I don't think that this story is going to be going away any time soon.
In the story I read in that, he said that he hosed the poor pooch down at a gas station (with probably cold water,) and said that the dog got back into his crate to get to the destination, then got back in for the ride home. Did he drug his dog, or did he beat him?
ReplyDeleteHe's really out of touch.
This goes to the root of Romney's 'compassion" for living things he deems beneath himself. He hosed the dog and the station wagon off, then continued the trip with the terified dog STILL on the roof. This is an example of how he would treat the 99% of us who are not of his caliber. This family should not own any pets, they do not know how to treat them.
ReplyDeleteHead it up Seamus! Then when he gets the nomination it'll come out about the illegal aliens working for him.
ReplyDeleteWillard, "The Mitt" says: "I "LOVE" all my dogs "DEEPLY!"
ReplyDeleteHis poor dog literally sh!t his pants from fear. Dogs do not poop in their crate unless something is terribly wrong. I'd love to see Willard stuffed in a crate and strapped to a car roof. See how he likes it. Willard Romney is not a real human being. Good thing he will never be president.
ReplyDeleteFor this reason alone, I do not have a high opinion of this man. If he didn't treat his dog humanely, how can he care about human beings? I would never even consider placing my dogs in crates on top of the car. It wouldn't enter my head. No brainer. He is a pathetic man.
ReplyDeleteDid Mitt Romney commit voter fraud when he cast a ballot for Scott Brown in last year's special election in Massachusetts? On Monday, one of his lesser known opponents for the GOP presidential nomination, Fred Karger, filed a complaint with Massachusetts state election officials alleging that he voted for Brown, as well as in other Massachusetts elections, when he was not in fact a resident of the Bay State.
ReplyDeleteIn his complaint, Karger lays out a chronology of Romney's real estate moves since his failed presidential bid in 2008. According to Karger's timetable, Romney and his wife, Ann, bought a $12.5 million home in La Jolla, California, in May 2008. ("I wanted to be where I could hear the waves," Romney told the AP of his move to the West Coast.) Thereafter, Romney became a regular at California political events, even campaigning for Meg Whitman during her gubernatorial bid. A year later, in April 2009, the Romneys sold their home in Belmont, Massachusetts, for $3.5 million, and registered to vote from an address in the basement of an 8,000 square-foot Belmont manse owned by their son Tagg. But where the Romneys really lived these past couple of years seems to be a bit of a mystery. While Romney was appearing at so many California political events people were speculating he was going to run for office there, the National Journal reported in May 2009 that the Romneys had made their primary residence a $10 million estate in New Hampshire.
The discrepancies in the news coverage prompted Karger to take a closer look, in part because he found it dubious that a guy worth $500 million would really be living in his son's basement. Investigating this mystery was right up Karger's alley. He spent 30 years working for one of California’s preeminent GOP consulting firms, doing opposition research for candidates, as well as the tobacco industry, so he has plenty of experience digging up dirt on political adversaries.
Fraudulent voter registration in Massachusetts carries a penalty of $10,000 and up to five years in jail. And the law in Massachusetts is pretty clear about the residency requirements needed to vote in the state. The state defines residence as "where a person dwells and which is the center of his domestic, social, and civil life."
The most telling detail of the story was what he did next: pull over, used a water hose to clean the crate and car windows, then put the poor dog back in the crate and keep driving.
ReplyDeleteI have known people who could come up with such an idea, theoretically logical, but when presented with the distress of the dog would have changed course.
But not RomBot. There's something wrong with that man. With all that money and after all these years of campaigning, you'd think voice coaches could have done a better job. I can't stand to hear him speak; creeps me out, and makes me think of those women bots invading the White House in the movie "Mars Attacks"
Wouldn't it be great if after fracturing this country with every kind of divisive rhetoric, using corporate millions to pour the gasoline of fear on the economic meltdown - wouldn't it just be wonderful if the coalition that formed to defeat their candidate Romney was one as simple as pet-owners / animal-lovers? Or, just, people with compassion for other living beings?
ReplyDeleteHow perfect would that be?
True Blue Girl
That was cruel. Only a person without a feeling heart could do that to a pet..
ReplyDeleteI have no time for people that do not like animals. Period.
ReplyDeleteThe rest of the Romney voter fraud article from: Mother Jones.
ReplyDeleteUsing that definition, Karger spent some time interviewing Belmont residents, including members of the Romneys' local Mormon Temple, where they’d been regulars, and asked people when they’d last seen the the former Massachusetts governor or his wife around town. The local fishmonger told Karger, "They flew the coop. They moved to California. I haven’t seen Mrs. Romney in over two years, and she used to come in here all the time." Likewise, churchgoers used to worshiping with the Romneys told Karger that they also hadn't seen the Romneys in a couple years. Yet the Romneys continued to vote in Massachusetts, including in the January 2010 special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. Karger says he even received personal confirmation from Ann Romney about the couple's living arrangments. In April, Karger says he ran into her in Las Vegas at a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, where Mitt was speaking. According to Karger, Ann told him they are living in California.
In July 2010, the Romneys bought an $895,000 attached townhouse in Belmont, on the grounds of the McLean Mental Hospital, a move that finally gave Mitt a permanent Massachusetts address. Karger has asked the state to open an investigation into the Romneys' residency, as well as into whether they’ve been paying Massachusetts income taxes. The Romney campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Residency issues have plagued Mitt Romney in the past. When he campaigned for governor of Massachusetts in 2002, he ran into trouble because he had switched his residency to Utah three years earlier when he moved to Park City to take over the struggling Salt Lake Olympic operation. The move technically made him ineligible to run for office in Massachusetts, which requires seven years of continuous state residency before a candidate is eligible to run. After a lot of legal wrangling and paying back taxes, he was finally allowed on the ballot.
Karger, meanwhile, has a history of tormenting Romney. As the first openly gay Republican to seek the party's presidential nomination, Karger has taken aim at his opponents' stand on gay rights from the start. But Romney has also proven a useful stand-in for the Mormon Church, which Karger has never forgiven for funding California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in the state. Karger was instrumental in exposing the church's involvement in getting the initiative on the ballot and ultimately passed.
Last year, during Romney’s book tour, Karger organized protests at tour stops and ran ads calling on Romney to ask the Mormon church to abandon its involvement in the anti-gay marriage fight. On MSNBC in April, Karger declared himself the "anti-Romney candidate," and said he "plans to run a campaign specifically designed to throw a wrench into Romney's run." With Monday's complaint, Karger's certainly living up to his campaign pledge.
Let's strap Mitt onto a drone and shoot him at The Straights of Pooch Poop.
ReplyDeleteAnyone that cruel shouldn't be anywhere near the White House.
ReplyDeleteI can't even stand seeing a little spider hang on for dear life on a web attached to my windshield while I'm driving 30 miles an hour. I remove the little guy cause I know he's in distress.
Mitt Romney abused an animal and is stupid enough to tell people about it. Someone that stupid shouldn't be allowed to run a country.
ReplyDeleteMitt Romney abused an animal in front of his children. Someone that teaches children it's OK to abuse animals shouldn't be allowed to run a country.
Mitt Romney thinks he can "overcome" this animal abuse story with lots of money for damage control. That's pretty stupid. Too stupid to be allowed to run a country.
Mitt Romney's view of this animal abuse makes me believe he has abused animals (and possibly people) in far worse ways. He shouldn't be allowed to ...
There's nothing Mitt Romney can do or say that would make me consider him anything less than a criminal.
And... (ha,ha) it looks like he's the last clown in the GOP car. They are stuck with Romney for a candidate.
Last night, I emailed a friend that this episode disqualifies Romney as a human.
ReplyDeleteLast night, I emailed a friend that this episode disqualifies Romney as a human.
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Have some actually mistaken Willard as a "human?"
Romney's wife is a piece of shit, too. There's no way in hell, I would let my husband strap the family pet on the roof of our car at all, let alone in front of our children.
ReplyDeleteWhat's sickening is, Mittens still to this day doesn't see what the problem is. He's that fucking cruel and clueless. Poor, poor, little dog...after he shit himself empty, it's amazing the wind-chill on his "hosed-downed" wet body didn't kill him.
ReplyDeleteI would NEVER respect or trust a person that would do such a despicable thing. This asshole belongs in jail.
It shows the poor judgement of strapping the dog to the roof to begin with,then the poor judgement of boxing himself in without an alternative because really what could he have done with a big dog and a jam packed car at the gas station besides put it back on the roof?Oh yeah,this multimillionaire could have rented a van or found a local kennel or hired someone to drive the dog.So maybe it just shows his poor planning,poor judgement,and lack of flexibility.Not someone I want for a President.
ReplyDeleteThe DARK side of Mitt Romney:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/02/mitt-romney-201202.print
I'm the only only one of my siblings blessed with the 'animal love' gene, dogs particularly but most any other critter also too. And while Irish Setters have had most of their intelligence bred out of them, even the dumbest of the breed can feel fear and overwhelming stress. I tried to explain to sibs why this action of Mitt's was cruel and speaks to a lack of empathy toward living creatures, and not one of them got it. sighh What he did is animal cruelty and shows a very dark side of his personality. Even non-lovers of animals should pay attention to this one act above anything else Mitt does. One news commenter said that well, if that's (the dog incident) the worst you can say about him ... [implying he can't be that bad]. WRONG.
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ReplyDeleteI agree, actually that was the first thing that came to mind, First Lady material she's not. Glad this is coming back to haunt them, poor Seamus.
When dating, friendships, a person's way with pets is always something I consider.
Picture Seamus driving and the creepy Romney couple in a dog cage strapped to the roof shitting all over themselves.
Lol.
This is why I hope Mitt Romney gets the Republican nomination.
ReplyDelete"Seamus the Dog." H/T to Pink Floyd.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdFOgLyk6Qs
Too bad Seamus wasn't wearing his Magic dog underwear ... Major FAIL, Mittens!Bo would definitely NOT approve.
Mitt stones girl. Later he decides she's hot and they get married.
ReplyDeleteMitt Meets Ann
Mitt first met the beautiful daughter of the mayor of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., at a party given by classmate Cindy White. It was March 21, 1965, just before Ann’s 16th birthday. She was a sophomore at the Kingswood, a private school for girls. He was a senior at Cranbrook, its affiliated all-boy school.
The Beatles and the Rolling Stones were playing on 45 rpm records. Mitt saw her across the room. He remembered that when he was a Cub Scout in elementary school, he and some other scouts saw Ann riding a horse bareback across a railroad track.
“What do Cub Scouts do when they see a little girl on a horse?” Mitt says now. “We picked up stones and threw them [at her].”
Years later, at Cindy White’s party, Mitt thought, “Wow, has she changed!”
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/5/22/90847.shtml
http://www.facebook.com/DogsAgainstRomney
ReplyDeleteThey have a video up. Seamus likes fresh air.
Romney: "PETA has not been my fan over the years, Peat was after me when I went quail hunting in Georgia and they're not happy that my dog likes fresh air."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=juYfNYRuszo#!
Everyone seems to hate Romney, and there isn't much to love about him. Ditto Santorum, who at first glance seems 'better' but turns out to be outlandishly out-there. Make birth control illegal? Wow, that'll win votes across the land.
ReplyDeleteGryph, you enjoy terrific and insightful writing, here's Joe Klein today on Time's Swampland, on Santorum vs. Huntsman:
http://swampland.time.com/2012/01/06/two-candidacies-two-planets/?iid=sl-main-arenapage
What makes this story worse, to me, is that HE SHARED IT ON PURPOSE as an 'amusing anecdote' in his book, thinking it would somehow humanize him. The guy is missing the compassion component from his biological makeup--it's simply not there.
ReplyDeleteHis wife is not off the hook here either, though. If my husband had tried to do something so thoughtlessly heinous to one of our animals, he would have had a battle royal on his hands. The fact that she apparently passively accepts whatever heartless shit he pulls speaks volumes about her character, or rather, lack of it.
We should be glad he showed some restraint and didn't strap his kid's baby carriers to the roof..
ReplyDeleteOf course Mitt Romney committed voter fraud in MA - he has 5 homes side by side on Lake Winnipesaukee in NH - each valued at $10 million dollars. All of the properties are in his wife's name.
ReplyDeleteThere is no way in hell he lived in his son's unfinished basement at any time EVER.
Yet, the state of MA has already declared that they will not be investigating nor do they expect charges to be filed. There are no laws for the rich.
If Barack Obama treated a dog the way Mitt Romney did, the GOP would be running attack ads.
ReplyDeleteMitt Romney gets a pass for two reasons:
a) skin color
b) last clown in the car
Willow Palin Ticketed in Alaska ... Too Crazy in the Headlights
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tmz.com/2012/01/06/willow-palin-headlight-ticket/?adid=hero3
Dogs rule! Romney drools, and panders!
ReplyDeleteI'm not much of an Obama fan anymore but I'll give him this - I know he would NEVER do such a horrible thing (or any horrible thing) to Bo.
ReplyDeleteMitt has shown in his acts and his speech that he is more than willing to sacrifice the needs of others to keep him in his comfort zone.
ReplyDeleteThat is not a good quality for a person who wants to lead as diverse a nation as the US.
Thanks for posting this, it first came to light in 2008 and I'm glad it's going to be talked up again in 2012. Not only was he an idiot to do it in the first place, he was still an idiot back in 2008 when he allowed his campaign to bring the story up themselves as an example of his "unflappable" nature.
ReplyDeleteKind of telling that all these years, he's actually been PROUD of this.
And by the way, doing this to a dog just for a drive across town would have been cruel. Romney's dog was strapped to the roof for TWELVE HOURS!!!
ReplyDeleteThe trip was all the way from Boston, MA to Ontario, Canda.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/02/mitt-romney-201202.print
Romney Robot thought this made him more "folksey", he'll probably used the story again, saying he sang Patrotic hymns like "America the Beautiful, Corn qualifies as amber waves of grain, right?" during one of his waitress fake ass pinch photo ops.
ReplyDeleteWhat a buffoon.
As an animal lover who's also witnessed the aftermath of animal cruelty first hand, this sickens me beyond words. Animals give unconditional love and can transform people's lives for the better.
Can Romney afford a pet sitter, or kennel? Was it THAT important a trip that he couldn't rent a larger vehicle to accomodate Seamus?
Someone should hose Mitt down, tie him to the roof, and go 65 mph, see how much he likes it.
Like Margaret Cho once said "don't mess with a Vegan because they will f*ck you up" haha. Or in this case Animal Lovers. It's possible that out of everything bad with Mitt- this will be his downfall. Even my 78 year old mom was horrified about this story and she isn't too keen on dogs.
ReplyDeleteRomney's cruel, and a phony. No caring, decent person would treat an animal that way. He certainly doesn't exhibit much compassion for people, either. He grew up wealthy, still is wealthy, and doesn't begin to relate to the middle class or poor of this Nation.
ReplyDeleteHe certainly seemed very willing to get into a war with Iran, along with most of the other candidates. That is very scary.
As far as him having this fantastic reputation for creating jobs? Baloney! He cost a lot of people their jobs, and as much as he tries to spin, we are hearing more about that now and seeing him for what he really is all about - himself and the wealthiest.
The people I've heard from in Massachusetts don't seem to think very highly of him either. Anyone thinking about voting for this clown if he is nominated, needs to research the true facts first and be very careful not to be manipulated by his slick lies and flip-flopping.
I'd rather be the dog who rode on the roof than than the dog who rode through Obama's colon.
ReplyDeleteDog lovers against people like Obama who eat dogs UNITE!
NOBAMA 2012!